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Frank Foster

Frank Rowbotham Foster

Born: 31 January 1889, Deritend, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Died: 3 May 1958, Northampton
Major Teams: Warwickshire, England.
Known As: Frank Foster
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium


Test Debut: England v Australia at Sydney, 1st Test, 1911/12
Last Test:
England v Australia at The Oval, 3rd Test, 1912

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1912

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   11   15   1   330   71   23.57   0   3   11   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             407.5  108   926   45  20.57  6-91    4   0  54.3  2.27

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1908 - 1914)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  159  263  17  6548  305*  26.61   7  35  121   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             33296 14879  717  20.75  9-118  53   8  46.4  2.68

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Profile:

A fine all-rounder, a superb medium fast left arm bowler, and a natural hitter. He is best remembered, perhaps for his partnership with Sid Barnes on the 1911-12 Ashes tour, where their pairing was all but unstoppable. His bowling was characterised by pace off the pitch, good length, and generally a leg stump line, backed by a packed leg-side field. He bowled mostly left arm round with considerable swing, and could break the ball back to hit the stumps, but most of his victims were caught in the leg trap. He was at his best when partnered with "Tiger" Smith, his county wicket-keeper, who made some astonishing leg side stumpings from his bowling. He was a free hitter with the bat, but based on sound foundations. He attacked the bowling from the outset, and his finest innings was possibly his triple hundred in a day for his county (a county record that stood until passed by LaraÕs 501). He had contemplated giving up first-class cricket in 1911, but on changing his mind, captained Warwickshire to their first championship. Only 25 when cricket halted for the first world war, his career was ended by a war-time motor-cycle accident. "..there was about all his cricket an atmosphere of supreme confidence and inexhaustible vitality" wrote HS Altham. (Dave Liverman, 1998)

* Last Updated: Friday, 16-Aug-2002 21:13:01 GMT


 
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